During our stay at Lake of the Ozarks, we took a couple of hours to vist Ozark Caverns, which is adjacent to Lake of the Ozarks State Park near Osage Beach. For us, it was about a 30-minute drive.
The one-hour tour takes you on a 1/4-mile trail into and back out of the cavern. At the end, you are about 100 feet underground.
One of the most impressive sights inside the cavern is near the entrance, a formation called "Angel Showers", a steady stream of water coming down from the ceiling as if from a shower head and into a basin at the bottom.
We saw a handful of bats sleeping on the ceiling and were also fortunate to spot a blind salamander in one of the underground streams.
Be sure to spend some time studying the exhibits in the nature center either before or after the tour, and don't forget to look out the door near the front desk. A crowd of at least 20 hummingbirds was fluttering around two feeders.
The one-hour tour takes you on a 1/4-mile trail into and back out of the cavern. At the end, you are about 100 feet underground.
One of the most impressive sights inside the cavern is near the entrance, a formation called "Angel Showers", a steady stream of water coming down from the ceiling as if from a shower head and into a basin at the bottom.
We saw a handful of bats sleeping on the ceiling and were also fortunate to spot a blind salamander in one of the underground streams.
Be sure to spend some time studying the exhibits in the nature center either before or after the tour, and don't forget to look out the door near the front desk. A crowd of at least 20 hummingbirds was fluttering around two feeders.
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